Aging Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

— Stephen King

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

— Henning Mankell

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out…

— Mary Wesley

Growing up means nothing, it just means your closer to your death. Now what you learn while growing up, makes that process worth while.

— Alex Cole

“If you're referring to yourself as a 'grown-up', then you're still totally a kid. 'Grown ups' call themselves adults”

— Chelsea Fine

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Growing up means knowing which matters and which doesn't, having priorities and being able to face the consequences of your actions.

— Monica

“Children should be very understanding of grown-ups”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying, and dying to me doesn't sound like all that much fun.

— John Cougar Mellencamp

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

— Andre Malraux

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their…

— Alan Watts

“Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person…

— Robert A. Heinlein